Emersed Glosso Carpet

It has creeping runners and each of the green leaves is like a shape of a spatula.

Emersed glosso carpet.

Posts about emersed glossostigma written by torontoplantman. This is a small green trailing plant with curly branches that form a very good looking green carpet on the tank bottom. In order to create a low lying foreground carpet glosso needs about 2 4 watts per gallon or 0 9 1 watts per liter. Some aquascapers also use this plant all over the aquarium in iwagumi style aquascapes.

Most of the time increasing light intensity and increasing co2 are enough to keep glosso low. This low green plant species is native to australia and new zealand where it grows in shallow water bogs and marshes. Glossostigma elatinoides is a low growing aquarium carpet plant that looks like a lawn. Glossostigma elatinoides is best placed in the foreground as a carpet plant.

Failure to illuminate glosso properly will cause this plant to grow taller instead of sideways and eventually the plant will disintegrate. Glosso is a versatile ground cover plant for forming dense mats over the foreground of tanks. Glosso glossostigma elatinoides glossostigma elatinoides commonly known as glosso. The only issue that most aquascapers has with glosso is how to keep it growing low.

Many people have asked me how to start an emersed set up so i thought it d be best to go ahead and do this write up. Please keep in mind i m in the process of clearing out many of my plants and tanks since i ll be moving to australia in early 2015.